Last week, I was out in San Francisco for VentureBeat’s
CloudBeat conference. One of the panels I sat in on was “API’s: The Key that Unlocks the Cloud.” After it ended, I grabbed some time with panelist John Musser, founder of the web’s API directory:
ProgrammableWeb. John shared his views on APIs past, present and future.

Take a listen.

Some of the ground John covers:

What is ProgrammableWeb, and how did John get into the world of APIs?

How would John describe the modern API, and how is it different from integration technology of the past?

What makes a good API, and how do you make sure it flourishes? (Time to first “Hello world”)

Which companies are leading the pack in APIs (spoiler alert: Twilio and Stripe)?

Stay tuned for the next week or so as I roll out the rest of the interviews I conducted at CloudBeat. On deck are Linkedin’s use of Dell Boomi and Salesforce, Luke Kanies – Puppet CEO, Joe Arnold – CEO of SwiftStack and Anand Iyengar – Founder of CloudVelocity.